The People v. Olroyd

Clifford Olroyd, plaintiff in error, was found guilty of rape by a jury in the circuit court of Cass county and his punishment was fixed at imprisonment in the penitentiary for the term of eleven years. Judgment and sentence were entered on the verdict, and he has sued out this writ of error for a review of the record.

The indictment contains six counts. The first four counts charge that plaintiff in error forcibly raped Marion Baldwin, naming the date. The charging part of the fifth count is that “one Clifford Olroyd, a male person over the age of seventeen years, late of said county and…